Un singe en hiver (1962)

Directed by

Henri Verneuil

Genre

drama film, comedy drama

Country

France

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

16

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 235 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An aging hotel keeper in a quiet Normandy seaside town reminisces about his adventurous past in China. He meets a younger advertising executive who copes with his own disappointments by adopting a flamboyant macho persona. Their brief friendship offers each a temporary escape from their unfulfilling lives.

nostalgicmelancholicwistfuldrunkenbittersweetslow-pacedcharacter-drivenpoignant

What happens

A Monkey in Winter (French: Un singe en hiver) is a 1962 French comedy-drama film directed by Henri Verneuil. It is based on the novel A Monkey in Winter by Antoine Blondin. Set in a Normandy seaside town, it recounts the meeting and parting of two men at odds with life, one an old hotel keeper who dreams of dashing deeds in pre-war China and the other a young advertising executive who imagines he is an incarnation of Hispanic masculinity. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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